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Business management best practices including corporate strategy development, financial management, human resource management, information management, resource planning, marketing and sales.

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Chris Argyris

Business administration; Business management

(1923–) An American psychologist and specialist in organizational development whose work focuses on the relationship between the individual and the organization, and in particular ...

B.F. Skinner

Business administration; Business management

(1904–90) An American psychologist and the most celebrated exponent of behaviorism, not just in the study of psychology but as a means of running a society. His own technique of ...

Solomon Asch

Business administration; Business management

(1907–96) An American psychologist influenced by the gestalt viewpoint and who has specialized in the study of conformity behavior in small groups, generally considered to be one ...

Stanley Milgram

Business administration; Business management

(1933–84) An American psychologist who made several notable contributions to social psychology, particularly in the study of conformity to authority. His best-known finding was ...

Likert Rensis

Business administration; Business management

(1903–81) An American psychologist whose contributions to the study of management and organizational theory include the concepts of human asset accounting, the Likert scale, the ...

J.B. Watson

Business administration; Business management

(1878–1958) An American psychologist, and later advertising executive, who is generally regarded as the father of behaviorism.

industrial engineering

Business administration; Business management

An American term for a kind of applied ergonomics which concentrates on the system of production and draws on various fields, including industrial psychology, operational research ...